Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[PandoraGlitters]

space spools out
between us

laughter backwards
unspeaks into sobs

 

[PandoraGlitters]

eyes draw slowly down

....................through dark hair

making fingers jealous

 

[vampiredust]

The Neighbour's Cacti

Its jailer's fingers
unlocked night's cell.
How we made love.

 

[vampiredust]

so i was jetlagged and didn't know what to write

unlock me
O babydoll

 

[sassynyc]

downsizing

scale back
like sea creatures
families hunger
while corporations feast

 

[sassynyc]

drought

my pen
sputters regret
of words
aching to be written

 

[sassynyc]

faith

leave the boat
walk on water
believing you won't sink

 

[vampiredust]

cork skull, impervious
to her flammable words

 

[sassynyc]

fear

boogie men don't dance
in the presence of the sun

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Pirate Dreams

Coins spill
from pockets;
these shorts are full
'o bootie!

 

[PandoraGlitters]

One day I will
have faith,
lover,

and fall
endlessly.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

ten feet left
on the rope
between baskets
something snaps

 

[sassynyc]

remove this wall
..............................brick
.....................by
..............................brick
to let you inside

 

[sassynyc]

light
............hope
and love
....................seep through cracks
in the mortar

 

[PandoraGlitters]

vines
......find
..........grainy
..........niches
.......in brick
....growing
....parallel
....habitats
.............up

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Apology

Searing recognition
that I have pained You
crushes my joy.


Let me walk
your path again
more carefully,
feet bare.

 

[sassynyc]

falling

Thumbelina dances pirouettes
around the circumference
of the bathtub drain

 

[vampiredust]

The spaghetti
straps of her love
are breaking

 

[vampiredust]

freeters at the cold stone

miners unwrap
a melting moon
dragged
from its sleep

 

[Tzara]

Love, Simplified

..The odd thing is
that it isn't
.........all your body.

 

[vampiredust]

O Phoenix

Her tongue,
glowing
in the centre
of a bonfired
chest.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

artist's fingers
arrange the bloom
peeling petals
like wet pages

 

[sassynyc]

when truth is ugly
life in the dark
is beautiful

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Drink the scalding truth
and live?
Or dehydrate on mirage?

 

[PandoraGlitters]

pinwheel

foil shine blown
full spin

by pursed lips

catches wind